eugene onegin

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oistrach13

Discussion Starter · Aug 6, 2004

any body ever heard that opera?

I bought it online, and it arrived a few days ago. its really something, the only opera I ever heard in full (although I've heard about 200 separate arias).

the orchestration and the music are heavenly, I have the old version (1937), with some of the best voices in russia singing.

what do you think of this opera? everybody here seems to be a mozart fan :lol:

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Daniel

· #2 · Aug 6, 2004

Yes i heard one aria. It is amazing. Tschaikowskis instrumentation is ingenious and the music heart moving.

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Daniel

· #5 · Aug 7, 2004

I have only heard the waltz from Eugin Onegin. BUt I like that one a lot. I have very mixed feelings about Tchaikovsky. SOme of his music I strongly dislike, and some of it I love passionately!

I totally have the same feeling. His "trara, tschingarasabum"-music with cymbals..... i really don't like, it is kinda superficcial and only on effect.

But his concerts (violin and piano) and some ballets (not all) and songs are really awesome.

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Daniel

· #7 · Oct 19, 2004

Talking about Tschaikovsky, I must say the symphonies are something special: Now the 5 th is in the CD-Player the 2 nd movement is just magic. In the emotion and instrumentation are Dvorak and Tschaikovsky very similiar for me, not in its gestus and stylistic colour.

They are heavy, but he has the right feeling how to enlight the structure and how to make it to a great deal!

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